Social Security Institution Will Have Access Your Private Data In Banks And Many Other Institutions Very Soon

Not only Ministries but also various governmental institutions, including the Public Procurement Authority, Turkish Patent Institute and Borsa İstanbul, will be obliged to share persons' data in their system with the Social Security Institution ("SSI"). SSI's authorization to reach private data goes even further––your bank will disclose your banking information to the SSI for some data periodically, and in other cases if the SSI requests it.

The Turkish Parliament has recently adopted the Communiqué on Insurance Check to Be Conducted by Banks and Public Administration and Information and Documents to Be Obtained from Agencies and Institutions ("Communiqué"). The Communiqué was published in the Official Gazette No. 29026 on 10 June 2014 and will enter into force on 1 August 2014. The Communiqué was drafted based upon the Regulation¹ having the same title with the Communiqué's ("Regulation"), which was enacted and became effective at the end of 2013. SSI has, in fact,